Compilation #0 | Effective 1998-04-16
FRBR Work URI: /akn/au/act/1998/15
Biological Control Act 1984
Bounty (Computers) Act 1984
Bounty (Machine Tools and Robots) Act 1985
Development Allowance Authority Act 1992
Productivity Commission (Repeals, Transitional and Consequential Amendments) Act 1998
No. 15, 1998
An Act to repeal the Economic Planning Advisory Commission Act 1983 and the Industry Commission Act 1989, to deal with transitional and consequential matters arising from the repeals and from the enactment of the Productivity Commission Act 1998
[Assented to 16 April 1998]
The Parliament of Australia enacts:
This Act may be cited as the Productivity Commission (Repeals, Transitional and Consequential Amendments) Act 1998.
This Act commences on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.
Each Act that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.
Schedule 1—Repeal of Acts
Economic Planning Advisory Commission Act 1983
1 The whole of the Act
Repeal the Act.
Industry Commission Act 1989
2 The whole of the Act
Repeal the Act.
Schedule 2—Transitional provisions and consequential amendments
1 Definitions
In this Schedule, unless the contrary intention appears:
commencement day means the day on which this Act commences.
EPAC means the Economic Planning Advisory Commission.
EPAC Act means the Economic Planning Advisory Commission Act 1983.
IC means the Industry Commission.
IC Act means the Industry Commission Act 1989.
PC means the Productivity Commission.
PC Act means the Productivity Commission Act 1998.
2 Inquiries by IC
Biological Control Act 1984
10 Section 11
Repeal the section.
11 Paragraph 19(1)(f)
Repeal the paragraph, substitute:
(f) arrange for the Minister who administers the Productivity Commission Act 1998 to refer the recommendation to the Productivity Commission for inquiry and report.
12 Paragraph 56(1)(e)
Omit “Industries Assistance Commission”, substitute “Productivity Commission”.
Bounty (Computers) Act 1984
13 Subsection 5(8)
Repeal the subsection.
Bounty (Machine Tools and Robots) Act 1985
14 Section 9
Repeal the section.
Development Allowance Authority Act 1992
15 Paragraph 16(2)(a)
Omit “Industry”, substitute “Productivity”.
(185/96)
[Minister's second reading speech made in
House of Representatives on 4 December 1996
Senate on 13 February 1997]